This reminds me of why I like to play the piano. Have you ever seen a "player piano" music role? Or a music box bumpy role? It's fascinating to see how the bumps or holes make the music. They are a bit more obviously binary than this visualization. I think this is an electronic piano, and may have been programmed. What do you think about that sound vs. human played? I listened to yours and Jared's garage band Cherubic Hymn yesterday and enjoyed the fact that yall programmed it so there's still a human element in it for me, but it's different.
Ahh, piano rolls. I have not seen one in person, but I have seen pictures on Wikipedia, and a music box role makes a brief appearance in Pirates of the Caribbean II. Both very neat, both very binary. (Speaking of which, piano roles remind me of the old punch cards that used to be the only way to talk to a computer: they both control things by means of holes.)
On the site with the pointer to this video, the description says that this is a MIDI (aka electronic) piano recording played real time by a human pianist. If you listen to the Toccata And Fugue In D Minor visualization, the human element becomes more obvious. Our Cherubic Hymn GarageBand project, to me, is even less human due to the fact that the piece was written for voice, yet here it is played too perfectly on an extremely staccato artificial piano. It just doesn't sound right. Still, it served a purpose.
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On the site with the pointer to this video, the description says that this is a MIDI (aka electronic) piano recording played real time by a human pianist. If you listen to the Toccata And Fugue In D Minor visualization, the human element becomes more obvious. Our Cherubic Hymn GarageBand project, to me, is even less human due to the fact that the piece was written for voice, yet here it is played too perfectly on an extremely staccato artificial piano. It just doesn't sound right. Still, it served a purpose.